“Machine Dreams: Rainforest” is the inaugural exhibition of Dataland, the Museum of AI Arts, situated at Frank Gehry’s the Grand LA in Los Angeles. Open from June 20, 2026, to Jan. 31, 2027, and developed by Refik Anadol Studio, the exhibition unfolds across five galleries and 25,000 square feet of public space, redefining the museum as a site of continuous production where art is no longer a finished object but emerges in real time through the interplay of data, computation and human presence.

At the heart of the exhibition is the Large Nature Model (LNM), the world’s first open-access multimodal AI trained solely on nature data, drawing on more than 500 million images responsibly sourced from institutions including the Smithsonian, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Getty, iNaturalist and London’s Natural History Museum. The LNM is hosted on Google Cloud infrastructure in Oregon, operating on 87% carbon-free renewable energy.

A visitor takes the escalator surrounded by pink lighted screens

A visitor takes the escalator down to the first portal at Dataland.

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People sit and stand in a room surrounded by swirling purple lights

Visitors are immersed in imagery at Dataland.

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show creator Refik Anadol.

Media artist Refik Anadol, second from right, stands with the first visitors at Dataland.

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Benjamin Feinberg and his wife Amy.

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Benjamin Feinberg and his wife Amy, are immersed in the Infinity room.

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Benjamin Feinberg and his wife Amy, are immersed in the Infinity room.

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Benjamin Feinberg and his wife Amy, are immersed in the Infinity room.

1. Benjamin Feinberg, foreground, and his wife, Amy, are immersed in a changing kaleidoscope of imagery in the Infinity room. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

Visitors look at a row of lighted screens on a wall

Visitors explore images at the museum.

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A young child in from of a lighted display

Millie Csakberenyi, 4, uses an interactive tablet to add to imagery on the screen in front of her.

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A visitor creates a ghostly character surrounded by imagery

A visitor creates a ghostly character surrounded by imagery.

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A child watches an explosion of imagery on a giant screen

A child watches as an explosion of imagery happens before her in the Infinity room.

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Visitors are immersed in streaks of color

Visitors are immersed in imagery.

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